How to find Google API Key

Just a heads up, Google recently changed their interface, so to find your API key, you need to:

1. Go to the Google Developer Console (https://code.google.com/apis/console)
2. Create a new project
3. Within that project, click “APIs & Auth” in the sidebar, and then click “APIs”
4. Search for “Custom Search API” and click the “Enable API” button
5. Within the Custom Search API section, click the “View reports in API console” link
6. On the “View Reports” page, click “API Access” in the left sidebar
7. About halfway down the page, click the “Create new Server key…” button
8. You can leave the “Accept requests from these server IP addresses” field blank, and press “Create”
9. Grab the “API Key” that was just generated. It will be a random string of characters, letter, and numbers.

Hopefully that helps. Just a note – this was written April 6, 2015, so if Google updates their interface after that time, these steps may no longer be the same.